Can you cash out refinance while not working?

[Anthony Ives]

It’s not how the title suggests. I do have a job lol. I’m not sure how other states work, but in California where I live I get 12 weeks off of work for having a kid. I just had my first kid and have been off for about 3 months at this point, and will be going back in a week. I’ve never done a cash out refinance so I’m unfamiliar with the process. Will this leave have any effect on me doing this? All I could find online was that my lenders can’t deny my wife since she is the mother, but I’m not sure if that same principle applies to fathers as well.